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Looking Back At Brezhnev, Peter Rutland, Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock Dec 2013

Looking Back At Brezhnev, Peter Rutland, Victoria Smolkin-Rothrock

Peter Rutland

This is the introduction to a special issue of Russian history evaluating the record of the Brezhnev era 25 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union. While in the West Brezhnev's Soviet Union is seen as a collosal failure, many Russians look back on the period with nostalgia. And the society was much more dynamic than the label "stagnation" implies. The seeds of Russia's explosive changes in the 1990s were planted during the Brezhnev era.


Life Lines: Perspectives On Russian And European Culture, Society, And Politics [A Festschrift For Professor Raymond T. Mcnally], Nicholas Racheotes Jun 2013

Life Lines: Perspectives On Russian And European Culture, Society, And Politics [A Festschrift For Professor Raymond T. Mcnally], Nicholas Racheotes

Nicholas Racheotes

A "Festschrift for Professor Raymond T. McNally," this volume comprises ten studies by colleagues and former students of the distinguished historian of Russia. Included are studies considering the relationships between Russian and Soviet political leaders and literary figures, e.g. Khrushchev and Solzhenitsyn; literary memoirs of leaders of the "intelligentsia" such as Alexandr Herzen; and overviews of American-Romanian relations, Bohemian history of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and American-Soviet relations in the 1930s.


Research In The Soviet Union Under Glasnost, Theophilus C. Prousis Jul 2011

Research In The Soviet Union Under Glasnost, Theophilus C. Prousis

Theophilus C. Prousis

I spent the 1987-88 academic year in the USSR with a grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) to conduct historical research in Soviet archives and libraries. IREX, with government, corporate, and foundation support, administers research exchange programs with the Soviet Union and the socialist countries of Eastern Europe in the fields of the social sciences and the humanities. I had been in the USSR during 1980 and 1981, at a time when East-West tensions were high as a result of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Carter's grain embargo and boycott of the Moscow Olympics, and the …


Children's Lives After Zoia's Death: Order, Emotions, And Heroism In Children's Lives And Literature In The Post-War Soviet Union, Ann Livschiz Aug 2010

Children's Lives After Zoia's Death: Order, Emotions, And Heroism In Children's Lives And Literature In The Post-War Soviet Union, Ann Livschiz

Ann Livschiz

No abstract provided.


Pre-Revolutionary In Form, Soviet In Content? Wartime Educational Reforms And The Postwar Quest For Normality, Ann Livschiz Aug 2010

Pre-Revolutionary In Form, Soviet In Content? Wartime Educational Reforms And The Postwar Quest For Normality, Ann Livschiz

Ann Livschiz

No abstract provided.


Esmonde Higgins In The Soviet Union, Terry Irving Dec 2007

Esmonde Higgins In The Soviet Union, Terry Irving

Terence H Irving, Dr (Terry)

Esmonde Higgins visited the Soviet Union in 1920 and became a Communist, and in 1928 and began a process of disengagement from Communism. This chapter explores his reactions to the Soviet Union during those visits, in particular how he projected onto the Soviet system his own imagined world of socialist feelings. Back in Australia it was the bureaucratic and ruthless style of the party's leadership that cured him of his sentimentality about Communism and the Soviet system.


Esmonde Higgins In The Soviet Union, Terry Irving Dec 2007

Esmonde Higgins In The Soviet Union, Terry Irving

Terry Irving

Esmonde Higgins visited the Soviet Union in 1920 and became a Communist, and in 1928 and began a process of disengagement from Communism. This chapter explores his reactions to the Soviet Union during those visits, in particular how he projected onto the Soviet system his own imagined world of socialist feelings. Back in Australia it was the bureaucratic and ruthless style of the party's leadership that cured him of his sentimentality about Communism and the Soviet system.


Miyamoto Yuriko And The Soviet Propaganda, George T. Sipos Oct 2002

Miyamoto Yuriko And The Soviet Propaganda, George T. Sipos

George T. Sipos

No abstract provided.